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title: Hier, on a nagé dans la mer." - means she is in Nice with her family… — Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Hier, on a nagé dans la mer." - means she is in Nice with her family, the weather is fine and hot, and yesterday they swam in the sea; la mer is the sea and la mère is the mother. Who acts: Je, weather, dans. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the french course 
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# Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★, sentence 7

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Hier, on a nagé dans la mer." - means she is in Nice with her family, the weather is fine and hot, and yesterday they swam in the sea; la mer is the sea and la mère is the mother.

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**Who acts:** Je, weather, dans · **What happens:** mean, be, swim · **To what, where:** Nice, sea, la sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: decoding a short French text ★★★» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Je, weather, dans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson:7
# text = Hier, on a nagé dans la mer." - means she is in Nice with her family, the weather is fine and hot, and yesterday they swam in the sea; la mer is the sea and la mère is the mother.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 039-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Hier	hi	X	FW	_	12	dep	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nagé	nagé	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dans	dan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	la	la	X	FW	_	1	dep	_	_
8	mer	m	X	FW	_	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Nice	Nice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	la	la	X	FW	_	40	compound	_	_
37	mer	m	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	xcomp	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	la	la	ADP	GW	Typo=Yes	46	case	_	_
43	mère	mère	X	NN	_	42	goeswith	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | with Je's family | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Je |  |  | Nice |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the weather |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **swim** *in a quote* | past | dans *= dan* |  |  | the sea | yesterday |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the la sea and the mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | la the mother | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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